cataclysmal

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Then, if they went into a flat that was nearly all studio, their furniture went back in a cataclysmal wave to the warehouse, where a ten-dollar room, a twelve-dollar room, would not dam the overflow.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean

The whole structure of three united, happy lives was built upon these cataclysmal facts--yet she had never asked what thought they held of them!

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.

Fortunately, the approaching explosion, which would have been of a cataclysmal nature,—Stiffy was not a boy to do things by halves,—was averted by a change of demeanour on the part of the temptress.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian

Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.

From Rolf in the Woods by Seton, Ernest Thompson

The mind trained in submission to universal law will not shrink from a fate which awaits the universe by fire or cataclysmal change.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel